Vallely has wisely distanced himself from the hysterical demands for an immediate canonisation that shouts of "Santo subito!" represented on the death of John Paul II, the artificer of the long and tenacious campaign to push John XXIII's thrilling and much needed reforms of the Second Vatican Council into history.
"He is unusual because he is tenacious and continues to push ahead," said United States Representative Major R. Owens of Brooklyn, who has been on the receiving end of Mr. Hicks's flood of phone calls and letters.
Though speculation and hyperbole will surely continue as the price inevitably waxes and wanes, the technology, infrastructure and tenacious group of humans pushing this thing forward aren't simply going to stop.
The new case is the result of a tenacious search for a vehicle that might push the Supreme Court to resolve the question of whether a long-ignored 1968 law supplanted Miranda.
They're tenacious and resilient, and even when paved over, they keep pushing up, blending into the new order here, standing out from it there.
Tenacious D have appeared in numerous music videos by other bands, including "Push" by Dio, "Photograph" by Weezer and "Learn to Fly" by the Foo Fighters.
Without reporters putting real boots on the ground, these celebrity anchors are just pushing opinions around... usually the opinions of a tenacious agent, public relations firm, or powerful political consultants.
The innovators of the homogenised high street are now using their financial muscle to drive out independent shops and push up rents beyond the reach of all but the most tenacious retailers.
The project's scientists have seen the tenacious, gangly, junkyard dog of a tree leaning out of second-story windows of abandoned buildings, pushing its leaves up through subway grates from underground.
Based on a decade of working with one of the most effective and tenacious campaigns in the history of the environmental movement, I know that we can -- and will -- prevail in the push to clean energy, even in unlikely places.
